Daniel Arkadij Gerzenberg, born in 1991, is a poet, performer, song pianist, librettist and member of the poetry collective G13. He works on the topics of identity, anti-Semitism and sexualized violence. Together with Max Czollek, he curated the four-part series Lieder für das Jetzt at the Heidelberger Frühling International Music Festival in 2022 and co-edited the resulting Lieder issue of the magazine Akzente. He teaches poetry at the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin and is a member of the Coalition for Pluralistic Public Discourse (CPPD). At the Gorki he is staging his book Wiedergutmachungsjude in the FЯEMDE POESIE? series in season 2024/25.
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